2The Daily Tar HeelThursday, November 5. 1992
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ByKlmNikles
Staff Writer
Fourth-year medical student Harry
Broome remembers when a Burke
County man was hospitalized for a turtle
bite.
John Turner, a first-year medical stu
dent from Charlotte, has decided to prac
tice family medicine in areas that don't
have specialized health care.
The Area Health Education Centers
program, administered by the UNC
School of Medicine, not only offers
unique learning experiences to Univer
sity medical students by flying them to
rural clinics but also provides further
training to rural doctors and health care
to people who otherwise would not be
able to obtain it.
In just one of its 5,343 continuing
education programs last year, AHEC
served more than 136,245 people, said
John Payne, AHEC deputy director for
administration.
AHEC sponsors consultation clinics
in small towns through nine centers in
North Carolina. A UNC medical spe
cialist, who usually brings along a medi
cal resident or medical student, is as
signed to each clinic.
The centers Mountain, based in
Asheville; Charlotte; Northwest, based
in Winston-Salem; Greensboro;
Fayetteville; Wake, based in Raleigh;
Area L, based in Rocky Mount; East
ern, based in Greenville; and Coastal,
based in Wilmington serve their sur
rounding communities.
AHEC relies on the University's
Horace Williams Airport, located on
Estes Drive, to fly many students and
doctors to its centers.
"Medical students would be unable
to participate in AHEC programs if they
did not have the option of flying to the
centers," Payne said. "Because of the
amount of studying they do, the stu-
dents would not have time to drive to'
the centers.
"When a pediatric cardiologist flies
to Rutherfordton, he can get there ...
and it only takes him 2 12 hours includ
ing commuting to and from the airport,"
he said. Driving to Rutherfordton, how
ever, would take nearly eight hours,
Payne estimated.
Flying saves not only time, but a
person can be productive whether in a
clinic somewhere else or doing some
thing here (instead of driving), he said.
The program s six planes flew 3,410
flights in North Carolina during 1991
and 1992."WeflewasfareastasManteo
and Hatteras ... and as far west as
Cullo whee ... and Franklin," Payne said.
Medical students may participate in
AHEC during all four years of medical
school, Payne said.
First-year medical students have the
option of signing up to visit an AHEC
center. "This allows them to get inter
ested in general and family medicine,"
Payne said.
Turner was first exposed to AHEC
when he flew to the Area L AHEC with
three other first-year medical students
for an informative afternoon respite from
their studies. "We went to Heritage
Hospital in Tarboro ... and talked to
doctors there, and then we took a tour of
the town and a local nursing home," he 1
said.
One purpose of AHEC is to recruit
physicians to rural areas in North Caro
lina, Turner said. "I landed in Tarboro
expecting to see farms and tobacco, but
I was surprised at how modern things
were in the hospital," he said. "I was
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N.C. AREA HEALTH
EDUCATION CENTERS
Northwest
(Winston-Salem)
Mountain
(Asheville)
Location of AHEC
offices
Location of AHEC
substations
shocked."
Turner no longer thinks that inad
equate medical facilities are the prob
lem in rural areas. What places like
Tarboro need are more doctors, he said.
Second-year medical students are
assigned to an AHEC location and usu
ally a physician in private practice to
learn how to diagnose physical symp
toms of illnesses, Payne said.
Third- and fourth-year medical stu
dents may do one-month rotations at
any of the nine centers, learning, for
example, internal medicine in
Wilmington or Greensboro, or pediat
rics in Charlotte, Payne said.
This year, Broome completed his re
quired rotation of ambulatory care in
Morganton, in the Mountain AHEC re
gion. "One of the purposes of AHEC is
to introduce students to other commu
nity services for health care," said
Broome, whose own experiences ranged
from working in a prison infirmary to
following investigations of child and
elder abuse.
The AHEC program receives $33
million in state appropriations and an
additional $40 million from patient rev
enues, registration fees, federal grants
and hospital support, Payne said. Vari
ous departments of UNC Hospitals are
billed for the flights they make to AHEC
centers at 63 cents per passenger per
mile:
Although the fate of the Horace Wil
liams Airport is uncertain as University
and local government officials debate
its future, Payne is confident that an
acceptable alternative to the airport will
be found if it is closed.
Campus Calendar
THURSDAY
1:45 p.m. The Lorclcls will sing in the Pit.
3 p.m. University Career Services will offer in
formation on how to look for an internship in 306
Hanes.
3:30 p.m. German Home will have Kaffeklatscb
in Dey fourth-floor Reading Room. ,
UCS will hold an interviewing skills workshop in
209 Hanes.
4 p.m. International Center will sponsor a Wil
son Library N.C. Collection Gallery Tour for new
American and international English conversation part
ners. Meet at the entrance to Wilson Library.
6 p.m. Association of International Students will
hold a debate about the election results in 226 Union.
"Brothers' discussion and support group for African-American
male students will meet in the Hinton
James first-floor lounge. Information: 962-2175.
Presbyterian Student Center, 1 10 Henderson St,
will have a student dinner and communion service.
Lutheran Campus Center, behind ATO on Rose
mary Street, will hold a graduate Bible study to
paraphrase "Philippians."
7 p.m. UNC Outing Club will meet to plan the
weekend trip to Mt. Rogers in 205-6 Union.
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A committee of local government
officials, residents and University rep
resentatives was created in May to study
alternatives for the airport's future. The
panel met for the first time last month.
Previous attempts in 1989 by the
county commissioners to move the air
port to other locations in Orange County
failed when rural residents complained
about safety.
UNC officials have said they want to
use the airport's present site for other
uses, such as a satellite campus, while
neighbors of the facility often complain
about noise and safety. Horace Will
iams is located close to three schools. ,
Payne said he was not sure what
AHEC would do if the Horace Williams
were closed. The Raleigh-Durham In-,
ternational Airport has been used be
fore, but is not an alternative because of
delays caused by both highway and air
traffic, Payne said.
People in rural areas served by AHEC
would suffer the most if a local airport
were not available for use, he said.
"Our mission is to . . . provide educa
tion and training to meet the health
manpower needs, especially in rural
areas, for the state of North Carolina,"
Payne said. "We're the bridge or broker
of these programs. It's our responsibil
ity to get those programs out to the
community."
Although it's a bit early to say for
sure, AHEC's message seems to have
reached Turner. "I want to practice fam
ily medicine ... and to spend time with
folks who can't afford health care,
whether I work as a volunteer or as a
paid professional."
Students for the Advancement of Race Rela
tions will meet in the Campus Y lounge.
7:30 p.m. Volunteers Action Center will have a
speaker from the Association of Retarded Citizens to
speak about volunteer opportunities downstairs in the
Campus Y.
9 p.m. VVXYC will sponsor an Early '80s Dance
with costume, trivia and lip-sync contests as well as
prizes at the Cat's Cradle until 2 a.m.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
SEAC will hold the Bizarre Bazaar (a yard sale)
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 321 Cameron Ave.
Donations of second-hand items may be brought to
the Campus Y by Friday,
Footfalls Road Race, 4-mile run or 2-mile walk:
Applications are available at the Campus Y and the
Union Desk. The race is I p.m. Sunday.
Peer-Advtsing Program applications are avail
able at the Union Desk, BCC, Campus Y and 1 16
Steele.
CAA has applications available for Student Recre
ation Center president outside of the office in Suite A,
Union. Applications will be due at noon Friday.
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